plaster cast

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noun

any piece of sculpture reproduced in plaster of Paris.

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plasmotropic, plasmotropism, plassey, plaster, plaster bandage, plaster cast, plaster of paris, plasterboard, plastered, plasterer, plastering

Origin of plaster cast

First recorded in 1815–25

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Examples from the Web for plaster cast

A plaster-cast mask of Voltaire when first hung up made him chuckle with indecent laughter.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man|Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
By the purest chance, dallying over the knickknacks, he picked up a plaster-cast of a hand.
The Lincoln Story Book|Henry L. Williams
I have had a plaster-cast model made of the little Pompeian figure of Narcissus at the spring in Naples.
Atlantis|Gerhart Hauptmann
The plaster-cast was then well oiled, the fish laid in it, and more plaster poured in, until the fish was covered.
The Swan and Her Crew|George Christopher Davies

Is there any one, I ask, who will pay to see the plaster-cast when he can behold the marble original for nothing?
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General|Charles Lever

British Dictionary definitions for plaster cast

plaster cast

noun

surgery a cast made of plaster of ParisSee cast (def. 40)

a copy or mould of a sculpture or other object cast in plaster of Paris

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Medicine definitions for plaster cast

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plaster cast

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